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Roger Newland Shepard (born January 30, 1929 in Palo Alto, California) is a cognitive scientist and author of Toward a Universal Law of Generalization for Psychological Science. He is seen as the father of spatial relations and obtained his Ph.D. in psychology at Yale University in 1955 where he was a member of skull and bones society.

In 1995, Shepard received National Medal of Science for his contributions in the field of cognitive science. In 2006, he also won the Rumelhart Prize. Shepard is Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Stanford University.

See also Edit

• Center for Evolutionary Psychology
• Mental rotation
• Shepard tone

External links Edit

• Biography at rr0.org (in french)
• Stanford faculty